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Senior User Researcher
Inside IR35
Edinburgh or Glasgow / Hybrid
Loriens Public Sector client has a new opportunity for an experienced Senior User Researcher to join their team for an initial 4 month contract.
The successful candidate will work on a strategic programme aimed at transforming digital based services.
- Plan and conduct user research, utilising appropriate strategies to test new ideas and concept development (including discovery, user requirements gathering, usability testing, and other qualitative and quantitative approaches to ensure the user's needs are fully understood in the product's design)
- Review and synthesise primary and secondary research material;
- Generate new, useful and focused insights and translate them into actionable features that allow teams to improve their product/service for users;
- Support the set up of approaches and tools which enable efficient insight documentation for ease of reference in wider design and development work;
- Work closely with other designers and product managers to devise appropriate research strategies to generate focused insights;
Essential Skills / Background
- Experience in applying appropriate user-centred research methods and participant recruitment strategies to suit different project contexts
- Collaboration with other design disciplines, especially service design and UX design
- Planning and running interviews and workshops with users and stakeholders, including remote sessions
- Experience of working both independently and as part of a team, whilst balancing a range of competing priorities
- Experience of leading team meetings, webinars, events and/or conferences online
- Track record of working within project management environments, planning and organising a variety of tasks
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
